{"id":7645,"date":"2020-02-24T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2020-02-24T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:28:40","slug":"climate-tensions-at-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/02\/24\/climate-tensions-at-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate tensions at the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the NAEE <a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/february-17th-2020\/\">weekly round up<\/a>\u00a0for the story that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/bbcstudios\/2020\/bbc-studios-science-unit-announces-series-with-greta-thunberg\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is working with <strong>Greta Thunberg<\/strong> on a new series about climate change. \u00a0Rob Liddell, a BBC Studios Executive Producer gushed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Climate change is probably the most important issue of our lives so it feels timely to make an authoritative series that explores the facts and science behind this complex subject. \u00a0To be able to do this with Greta\u00a0is an extraordinary privilege, getting an inside view on what it\u2019s like being a global icon and one of the most famous faces on the planet<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heart sank at this guff. \u00a0It sank some as I read this ...<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>As she travels Greta meets not only leading scientists but political leaders and business heavyweights, exploring the scientific evidence with them and challenging them to change. \u00a0The films will also charts her own journey into adulthood as she continues to be confronted by the real world consequences of inaction; and will share some of the quiet moments as she writes the impactful speeches that are now broadcast and analysed around the world, as she lives a teenage life like no other<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Dear me; this sounds as if it's going to be both exploitative and hagiographic with little chance of a challenge to Thunberg's doom-laden views. \u00a0Clearly the series is going to be another one to miss, but then I don't watch any of the BBC's (and other broadcasters') nature programmes. \u00a0However, then I thought there'll be some angst here for the BBC if it really is going to follow her around Europe or on the high seas. \u00a0How will its producers and presenters cope when there are no air miles on offer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the NAEE weekly round up\u00a0for the story that the\u00a0BBC\u00a0\u00a0is working with Greta Thunberg on a new series about climate change. \u00a0Rob Liddell, a BBC Studios Executive Producer gushed: \u201cClimate change is probably the most important issue of our...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}